Division of Administration and Finance
University Services
News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Richard Zagrzecki
Communications Coordinator
832-842-4722
rzagrzec@central.uh.edu
LATEST ADDITION TO PUBLIC ART COLLECTION INSTALLED AT UH-CLEAR LAKE
Houston, April 5, 2013 – The latest addition to the public art collection for the UH System comes
from a familiar face at the University of Houston-Clear Lake campus.
Sandria Hu, a professor of art at UH-Clear Lake since 1975, created “Archeological White and
Black.” The abstract painting, which measures 4 feet by 13 feet, was installed March 23 on the
second floor of the Student Services Building.
Mike Guidry, the curator of the Public Art Collection for the UH System, said the piece, like all of
Hu’s work, references landscape.
“It’s abstracted imagery, but she looks at all the details of the landscape. She looks at everything
from the dirt to the trees and digests all of that and puts in into her work,” Guidry said.
The Percent for the Art program was established in 1966 and earmarks 1 percent of the
construction budget for every new UH System building to go toward funding art.
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